tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post6223835735843880537..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: This Will Be Entertainingbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-18214964617450782502018-07-31T19:53:07.550-07:002018-07-31T19:53:07.550-07:00What Chaos really means, and its only real Antidot...What Chaos really means, and its only real Antidote<br />Jun 6, 2018 by Dr. Joel McDurmon <br />(This article partly concerns Jordan Peterson)<br /><br />https://americanvision.org/16223/what-chaos-really-means-and-its-only-real-antidote/Gregory Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236221099414568837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-32136320602706151242018-07-31T19:50:17.803-07:002018-07-31T19:50:17.803-07:00"Is Jordan Peterson our new Aryan Christ?&quo..."Is Jordan Peterson our new Aryan Christ?"<br />Feb 8, 2018 by Dr. Joel McDurmon<br /><br />https://americanvision.org/15591/jordan-peterson-new-aryan-christ/Gregory Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236221099414568837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-11496900187801107982018-07-31T07:58:54.238-07:002018-07-31T07:58:54.238-07:00This 85 year old single (no, widowed) white male i...This 85 year old single (no, widowed) white male is jumping for joy at your most skillful addressing of the subject.<br />Peterson's stand earns him the hearing from the cognoscente, those who have been conditioned to believe God is a pre scientific idea. And that faith and superstition are the same thing. This is a little like saying thrift and greed are the same thing. Peterson's main contribution is showing why there is a final standard for judging what is right and what is wrong.<br />Again, many thanks !<br />Don Cain, Orlando, FLdcain@cfl.rr.comhttp://www.servetheking.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64798619090477424182018-05-31T05:10:43.979-07:002018-05-31T05:10:43.979-07:00Jim,
Thanks for introducing Paul VanderKlay. I wa...Jim,<br /><br />Thanks for introducing Paul VanderKlay. I was not familiar with his work.<br /><br />BM,<br /><br />I feel relatively certain that you will find value in almost any of VanderKlay's videos. He's a pastor who is spending a lot of time unpacking Peterson's work. He is an astute observer, seems to be quite a scholar, and is just a pleasure to listen to. <br /><br />Like Ron, I am keen to hear your thoughts on VanderKlay. <br /><br />Here is a link to a video that I find quite interesting:<br /><br />https://youtu.be/SNCyM8c_j90<br /><br /><br />Jeff L<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-86483451717080574222018-05-27T18:47:37.130-07:002018-05-27T18:47:37.130-07:00Much earlier, max. For sure not later than 1865, ...Much earlier, max. For sure not later than 1865, but an argument could be made for 1789.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-67456527988372260472018-05-27T18:18:02.299-07:002018-05-27T18:18:02.299-07:00“What do I mean by state? All power, authority, la...“What do I mean by state? All power, authority, lawmaking, legal conflict resolution, ultimate arbiter, reside in one entity - with no competing governance institutions allowed.”<br /><br /><br />you mean “God State”<br /><br />this kind of state did not arrive to america until 1913 :<br />Federal Reserve Act<br />The Sixteenth Amendment<br />compulsory schooling laws ( attempt to escape religious pluralism )<br />WW1<br />Executive Order 6102<br /><br /><br />seeds for this are planted with revolution 1775<br />First Bank of the United States February 25, 1791<br />The War of 1812<br />The Second Bank of the United States from 1816 to January 1836<br />The American Civil War from 1861 to 1865.<br />The Fourteenth Amendment<br /><br />maxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-90095399682538459142018-05-26T21:20:20.704-07:002018-05-26T21:20:20.704-07:00Max, of course there were such examples; in the we...Max, of course there were such examples; in the west none survived for long until England first, then France, in the late Middle Ages.<br /><br />What do I mean by state? All power, authority, lawmaking, legal conflict resolution, ultimate arbiter, reside in one entity - with no competing governance institutions allowed.<br /><br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-87776084216885518612018-05-26T21:16:47.210-07:002018-05-26T21:16:47.210-07:00Seems doable to me, too.
To add to the entertainm...Seems doable to me, too.<br /><br />To add to the entertainment value of the comments section, I will paraphrase Jordan Peterson: Of course tribes have a downside; that's not all that they have!<br /><br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-76268691883407401332018-05-25T20:37:31.436-07:002018-05-25T20:37:31.436-07:00the concept of the modern state in fact developed ...the concept of the modern state in fact developed along with that of sovereignty<br /><br />the greek polis was a state, the hun empire of china was a state, the roman empire was a state, Byzantium was a state<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“I did not understand the Reformation well enough to include it on the list. I would now include it.” <br />problems started long time before Reformation<br /><br />Otto the Great<br />Otto wrested from the nobles the powers of appointment of the bishops and abbots, who controlled large land holdings. Additionally, Otto revived the old Carolingian program of appointing missionaries in the border lands. Otto continued to support celibacy for the higher clergy, so ecclesiastical appointments never became hereditary. By granting land to the abbots and bishops he appointed, Otto actually made these bishops into "princes of the Empire" (Reichsfürsten);[citation needed] in this way, Otto was able to establish a national church.<br /><br />Otto marched on Rome and drove John XII from the papal throne and for years controlled the election of the pope, setting a firm precedent for imperial control of the papacy for years to come.<br /><br /><br />Church and state<br />Henry V (1086–1125), great-grandson of Conrad II, became Holy Roman Emperor in 1106 in the midst of a civil war. Hoping to gain complete control over the church inside the Empire, Henry V appointed Adalbert of Saarbrücken as the powerful archbishop of Mainz in 1111. Adalbert began to assert the powers of the Church against secular authorities, that is, the Emperor. The Waiblings, on the other hand, stood for control of the Church by a strong central Imperial government.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Concordat of Worms (Latin: Concordatum Wormatiense),[1] sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians,[a] was an agreement between Pope Callixtus II and Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor on September 23, 1122, near the city of Worms. It brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors and has been interpreted[b] as containing within itself the germ of nation-based sovereignty that would one day be confirmed in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). In part this was an unforeseen result of strategic maneuvering between the Church and the European sovereigns over political control within their domains<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat_of_Worms<br /><br /><br />Investiture Controversy<br />https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy<br /><br /><br />he position of the pope, as bishop of Rome, was ill defined and pragmatically under the control of local factions. ... As long as secular rulers could appoint bishops and priests, any control from Rome would be illusory.<br /><br /><br />As Gregory VII he reigned from 1073 to 1085, and under him the powers of the Papacy were further strengthened. He strove to keep all bishops under Papal authority and stood out against their investiture by lay princes. He compelled archbishops to come to Rome to receive the pallium, the symbol of the formal recognition of their office, and thus ensured their recognition of the prerogatives of the Pope. His greatest struggle was with the King of Germany, Henry IV. The issue was the right of investiture. Could the monarch appoint the bishops and compel them to swear fealty to him? The Pope held that this subordinated the Church to the State and tended to corrupt the faith.<br />maxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-8507303988992149322018-05-25T13:59:34.032-07:002018-05-25T13:59:34.032-07:00Speaking of Tribes... This guy Brownstein rightly ...Speaking of Tribes... This guy Brownstein rightly implies, I think, that tribal groups definitely have their downsides: https://fee.org/articles/people-are-less-selfish-under-capitalism/<br />and<br />https://fee.org/articles/is-tribalism-the-worst-idea-in-history/<br />Yet we also know of the far more intimate and accountable relationships that tribes create, as well as the cultural bonding that occurs. Tribal life can and does create a wariness, fear and even hatred for outsiders... but this is a direct consequence of 1st Tier mindset in the Spiral Dynamics view. Seems to me that a base set of libertarian values, coupled with the immense communication and trade benefits of modern technology, can radically overcome age-old drawbacks of tribalism. IOW - keep the best traits, minimize the negatives, grow into more and more benevolent and altruistic actions that spring from the great wealth that will be created.<br />Seems doable to me.BDevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-34647679229024358842018-05-24T20:38:50.407-07:002018-05-24T20:38:50.407-07:00http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2017/05/and-dyi...http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2017/05/and-dying-cheer.html <br /><br />At the time I wrote this, I did not understand the Reformation well enough to include it on the list. I would now include it.<br /><br />There was no "state" until the competing governance structures were destroyed.<br /><br />We (libertarians) don't get it both ways; we can have absolute freedom and absolute freedom both at the same time. It has never worked and will never work.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-52727501471065362332018-05-24T16:47:46.838-07:002018-05-24T16:47:46.838-07:00You are looking for a solution to the problems tha...You are looking for a solution to the problems that we have now.<br /><br />to solve that you need to find what and where did it go wrong.<br /><br />you think that problems started just after medieval period.<br /><br />maybe, but I think you need to try to look from different perspective.<br /><br /><br />I agree with this:<br /><br />“I am considering that kinship, culture, tradition, religion and language remain important characteristics that bind a community - that assist in a community's desire to live in peace.”<br /><br /><br />now what else they had approximately same in this period ( western and central europe ) ?<br /><br />I would say no religious and political pluralism ( more or less ).<br /><br />I think that is problem.<br /><br />thanks max.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-53397213444745090222018-05-24T14:31:59.015-07:002018-05-24T14:31:59.015-07:00max, I am not considering that man returns to tent...max, I am not considering that man returns to tents on the Steppes of Asia...I am considering that kinship, culture, tradition, religion and language remain important characteristics that bind a community - that assist in a community's desire to live in peace.<br /><br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35558266251663059012018-05-24T06:20:55.140-07:002018-05-24T06:20:55.140-07:00The question is: what is required to be reintroduc...The question is: what is required to be reintroduced that the Enlightenment destroyed?<br />"Tribes: a group of people formed around kinship, culture, tradition, religion. Man will forever form tribes. There is no possibility of individual freedom without such a generally accepted social structure."<br /><br />Tribes tend to be natural meritocracies, with the smartest and the strongest assuming leadership. But they’re also natural democracies, small enough that everyone can have a say on important issues. Tribes are small enough that everybody knows everyone else, and knows what their weak and strong points are. Everyone falls into a niche of marginal advantage, doing what they do best, simply because that’s necessary to survive. Bad actors are ostracized or fail to wake up, in a pool of their own blood, some morning. Tribes are socially constraining but, considering the many faults of human nature, a natural and useful form of organization in a society with primitive technology.<br /><br />As people built their pool of capital and technology over many generations, however, populations grew. At the end of the last Ice Age, around 12,000 years ago, all over the world, there was a population explosion. People started living in towns and relying on agriculture as opposed to hunting and gathering. Large groups of people living together formed hierarchies, with a king of some description on top of the heap.<br />Those who adapted to the new agricultural technology and the new political structure accumulated the excess resources necessary for waging extended warfare against tribes still living at a subsistence level. The more evolved societies had the numbers and the weapons to completely triumph over the laggards. If you wanted to stay tribal, you’d better live in the middle of nowhere, someplace devoid of the resources others might want. Otherwise it was a sure thing that a nearby kingdom would enslave you and steal your property.<br />The Industrial Revolution and the End of Kingdoms<br />From around 12,000 B.C. to roughly the mid-1600s, the world’s cultures were organized under strong men, ranging from petty lords to kings, pharaohs, or emperors.<br />It’s odd, to me at least, how much the human animal seems to like the idea of monarchy. It’s mythologized, especially in a medieval context, as a system with noble kings, fair princesses, and brave knights riding out of castles on a hill to right injustices. <br /> The king is rarely more than a successful thug, a Tony Soprano at best, or perhaps a little Stalin. The princess was an unbathed hag in a chastity belt, the knight a hired killer, and the shining castle on the hill the headquarters of a concentration camp, with plenty of dungeons for the politically incorrect.<br /><br />With kingdoms, loyalties weren’t so much to the "country" – a nebulous and arbitrary concept – but to the ruler. You were the subject of a king, first and foremost. Your linguistic, ethnic, religious, and other affiliations were secondary. <br />if you were born then, the chances were 98% you’d be a simple peasant who owned nothing, knew nothing beyond what his betters told him, and sent most of his surplus production to his rulers. But, again, the gradual accumulation of capital and knowledge made the next step possible: the Industrial Revolution.<br />The Industrial Revolution and the End of the Nation-State<br />As the means of production changed, with the substitution of machines for muscle, the amount of wealth took a huge leap forward. <br />Then the game changed totally with the American and French Revolutions. People no longer felt they were owned by some ruler; instead they now gave their loyalty to a new institution, the nation-state. <br />On the plus side, by the end of the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution had provided the common man with the personal freedom, as well as the capital and technology, to improve things at a rapidly accelerating pace.<br />https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/06/doug-casey/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-nation-state/<br /><br />max<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-37694027483343708042018-05-23T19:06:42.827-07:002018-05-23T19:06:42.827-07:00And BTW - The Spiral Dynamics has really served me...And BTW - The Spiral Dynamics has really served me well over the years. You can pretty accurately zero in on likely actions by people based on their SD placement, and the situation they are up against. It also opens doors to understanding history much more deeply for me vis-a-vis SD.BDevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-61124777442412867782018-05-23T18:58:19.667-07:002018-05-23T18:58:19.667-07:00EMP- Cool; thx. I'll check him out. FEE had an...EMP- Cool; thx. I'll check him out. FEE had an article about him recently: https://fee.org/articles/skin-in-the-game-a-political-treatise-for-liberty-that-turns-the-golden-rule-upside-down/BDevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-58943186998836437932018-05-23T13:17:58.875-07:002018-05-23T13:17:58.875-07:00@BDev
Incerto.
His major conceptual contribution...@BDev<br /><br /><i>Incerto</i>.<br /><br />His major conceptual contributions and formulations include the following: "black swans", fragility/antifragility/robustness, ergodicity, the lindy effect, the agency problem, the ethical and practical necessity of "skin in the game", etc. <br /><br />He's a greek orthodox christian who grew up in Lebanon. He's also a Stoic. Not exactly a libertarian or an Austrian, but close enough for my taste.<br /><br />For what its worth, I know of no other thinker as learned as Dr. Taleb. His books are treasure troves of literature.<br /><br />EMPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-44993349923527029482018-05-23T12:23:36.350-07:002018-05-23T12:23:36.350-07:00"Neo-conservatism was a response to the USSR ..."Neo-conservatism was a response to the USSR purging Zionists."<br /><br />That may be true, but you have to ask why the USSR was purging the Zionists. Going back to the Russian Revolution, many of the major players were admittedly or likely Jewish (Trotsky, Lenin, Kerensky, etc.) and had ties to the wealthy Tsarist industrialists. See Maria Andreyeva, for example. The whole narrative we're given in the history books on the revolution and the establishment of the USSR doesn't make much sense when you scrutinize it. More likely, the revolution and subsequent Soviet regime were being bankrolled by the same people who were in power before, and continue to be in power today. So the expulsion of the "rootless cosmopolitans" around the time of Israel's founding reads more like an intentional catalyst FOR its founding, and for the eventual importation of Zionism into the American conservative and evangelical domains.<br /><br />C. StaytonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29914004917623333962018-05-23T03:48:42.163-07:002018-05-23T03:48:42.163-07:00C. Stayton, I am doing well. Thank you for droppi...C. Stayton, I am doing well. Thank you for dropping in.bionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-24970382472129549842018-05-23T03:46:56.327-07:002018-05-23T03:46:56.327-07:00Agree. He has done more good and shown more coura...Agree. He has done more good and shown more courage on this topic (SJW destroying) than anyone else I am aware of.bionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-80317656059827800072018-05-23T03:45:54.001-07:002018-05-23T03:45:54.001-07:00On order from the library.On order from the library.bionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-10164597865836505622018-05-23T03:45:37.367-07:002018-05-23T03:45:37.367-07:00BDev, best to ignore Anto
I don't recall hi...BDev, best to ignore Anto <br /><br />I don't recall him every appearing before this post. bionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-44338051260609409632018-05-23T03:43:56.576-07:002018-05-23T03:43:56.576-07:00Ron, I would love to do so, but I seem to be getti...Ron, I would love to do so, but I seem to be getting no help from Jim.bionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-72966074259457183502018-05-23T03:42:56.795-07:002018-05-23T03:42:56.795-07:00Thank youThank youbionic mosquitohttp://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-33539463490031145952018-05-22T20:36:32.311-07:002018-05-22T20:36:32.311-07:00Anto - What is it you mean? Why would this blog no...Anto - What is it you mean? Why would this blog not be suitable for me? Am I missing something obvious?<br />EMP - Have you got a link to a summary or short "best of Taleb" you could recommend to me?BDevnoreply@blogger.com